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ccording to the theory of recapitulation proposed by the
German atheist and evolutionist Ernst Haeckel, developing
embryos repeat the evolutionary process undergone by their al-
leged ancestors. This claim maintains that during its development
in the mother's womb, the human embryo first exhibits fish charac-
teristics, then reptilian ones, before finally turning into a human
baby. For long years this was depicted as evidence for the theory of
evolution, but eventually it was seen through as completely unsci-
entific and nothing more than a work of imagination. 1
In order to supposedly prove his unscientific theory, Ernst
Haeckel falsified drawings, trying to make fish and human em-
bryos resemble each other. When this fraud was unmasked, his de-
fense was that other evolutionists had done the same kind of thing. 2
Yet the imaginary scenario that Haeckel backed up with forged
drawings laid a seemingly scientific foundation for racism in a great
many countries, particularly in Germany.
According to the claims of the theory of recapitulation, the fea-
tures possessed by a human at the embryonic stage or in early child-

Ernst Haeckel and
his forged embryo
drawings